Traditional Chinese Solaris Release Overview

Overview of Features

The Traditional Chinese SolarisTM 9 operating environment is the internationalization and Traditional Chinese localization of the Solaris 9 operating environment and the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) window system.

The following sections provide information on the facilities you can use to input, display, and print multibyte traditional Chinese characters in the Solaris 9 operating environment.


Note -

The information in this book applies to both Taiwan and Hong Kong Traditional Chinese.


New Localized Features

The following sections describe the new features of the Traditional Chinese Solaris 9 operating environment, which include support for new locales, collation options, input methods, and iconv modules.

Language Support

The Solaris environment builds inherent internationalization features into every localized product. Localization facilities support the ANSI C recommendations for internationalization and localization that define the locale and related categories.

Locales

A locale contains the language with culturally specific information and conventions for a particular global region. Each process in the Solaris operating environment has the following set of locale attributes:

Traditional Chinese Locales

The Traditional Chinese Solaris operating environment provides simultaneous support for the locales in the following table. The locales look the same to the end user, but the internal character encoding is different.

Table 1-1 Traditional Chinese Locales

Locale 

Description 

zh_TW.EUC (zh_TW)

Traditional Chinese EUC locale (CNS11643-1992) 

zh_TW.BIG5

Traditional Chinese BIG5 

zh_TW.UTF-8

Traditional Chinese UTF-8 (Unicode 3.1) 

zh_HK.BIG5HK

Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) Big5-HKSCS 

zh_HK.UTF-8

Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) UTF-8 (Unicode 3.1) 

Traditional Chinese Codesets

The following table lists supported codesets for each Traditional Chinese locale.

Table 1-2 Traditional Chinese Codesets

Locale 

Codeset 

zh_TW.EUC (zh_TW)

cns11643 

zh_TW.BIG5

BIG5 

zh_TW.UTF-8

UTF-8 

zh_HK.BIG5HK

Big5-HKSCS 

zh_HK.UTF-8

Unicode 3.1 

Traditional Chinese Input Methods and Fonts

The Traditional Chinese Solaris environment provides input methods and fonts that enable you to input, display, and print any character in any language. The following input methods are supported for the Traditional Chinese locales:

For a complete list of fonts supported for the Traditional Chinese locales, see the International Language Environments Guide.

Input Method Auxiliary Window

The input method auxiliary window supports the following new functions:

Locale Categories

In the Traditional Chinese Solaris 9 operating environment, you can use the following general and specific categories as defined by ANSI C for the Traditional Chinese and English locales.

For example, the Traditional Chinese and the English/ASCII locales have the LC_TIME category that defines the display of the time and date according to the cultural format, as well as the actual Traditional Chinese or English/ASCII characters used in the display.

Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

CDE is an internationalized graphical user environment with a rich set of desktop applications. The environment is localized for Traditional Chinese and other languages. You can work with two or more localized applications simultaneously on the same desktop. Localized CDE applications include the following:


Note -

The OpenWindowsTM environment is no longer supported for use in this release.


Printing Facilities

The Solaris environment provides the following support for Traditional Chinese:

Remote User Facilities

The following list summarizes the Traditional Chinese Solaris 9 remote user facilities:

Developer Facilities

You can add a new locale or variations of existing locales to the Solaris 9 internationalized software environment. If you are a developer responsible for building locales, consult the International Language Environments Guide for additional information.

Messaging Facilities

The Solaris 9 messaging facilities provide localized versions of messages available for a locale. You can add localized messages without recompiling an internationalized application. Messages that are localized use facilities such as the following: